2018 Comics Advance Reorders

Comics and Graphic Novels Reordered by North American Comics Shops
Based on Reports from Diamond Comic Distributors

When retailers order an item which has not shipped yet, but whose initial order deadline has passed, it is called an Advance Reorder. These reorders, placed further out than regular reorders, tend to be more speculative in nature, as there is less certainty that stock will still be available. This page archives the weekly advance reorder charts Diamond released during the year. Click to see the archivedreorders, which are for books that had already shipped at the time of the order.

Note that the listings mix hardcovers, softcovers, and comics together, and that they also rank items by dollars rather than units. Note, too, that these are based on full cover price, so retailers' discounts have not yet been applied.

Advance reorders placed between May 29-June 3, 2018

The relaunched Amazing Spider-Man series was the week's top comic and top item overall in advance reorders. The 56-page issue had a discount program keyed to retailer's orders of Amazing Spider-Man #796.

The top DC book from August was Man of Steel #5. No hardcovers made the chart.

Advance reorders placed between June 11-17, 2018

X-23 #1 from Mariko Tamaki and Juan Cabal was the top comic book in advance reorders. On sale on July 11, it was the beneficiary of a deep discount connected to retailers' orders ofX-Men Red #3. Immortal Hulk #1 is up to a second printing, which placed second. Justice League Odyssey #1 was the top advance-reordered DC book. No hardcovers or softcovers made the list.

Advance reorders placed between June 18-24, 2018

The Artgerm variant of Life of Captain Marvel #1 from Marvel was the top advance-reordered comic book. It has an on-sale date of July 18. Justice League #4 from DC was right behind it, with the same on-sale date.

Solicitations were taken for the Walking Dead 15th Anniversary Blind Bag editions, due out October 10 — variants of previously released comics shipped in bags to hide their covers. Twelve made the list, led by #1.

Advance reorders placed between July 2-8, 2018

The "blind bag" editions for Walking Dead's 15th anniversary in October took the top 15 spots on the chart. But the first August-shipping comic appeared, Marvel's Infinity Wars #1. It has an on-sale date of August 1. The top DC book from August was the Catwoman #2 variant, which also has an on-sale date of August 1. No graphic novels made the chart.

Advance reorders placed between July 8-15, 2018

A dizzying 17 of the top 25 slots in the week's advance reorder chart went to Fantastic Four #1 and its variants. The new title by Dan Slott and Skottie Young has an on-sale date of August 8, and an incentive program for retailers that keys off orders of Avengers #3. The top 17 only included one unrelated comic book, Amazing Spider-Man #3.

After the surprise release of the first issue on July 11, Die Die Die #2 from Image made it onto the reorder list, in 24th place. The September 5 release of Dark Knight III: The Master Race was the only trade paperback to make the list.

Advance reorders placed between July 23-29, 2018

The advance reorder charts were all comics, as compared with the reorder charts from the week which were mostly graphic novels. Image led with advance reorders forDie! Die! Die! #2, which has a ship date of August 22. The first issue led reorders during the same week; it's rare to see consecutive issues of a title leading both reorder and advance reorder charts.

A rare week when both a hardcover and a softcover beat all of the comics in the advance reorder charts. Image's Oct. 10-shipping My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies was the top advance-reordered hardcover, while SagaVol. 9 was the top advance-reordered softcover; its on-sale date is September 26.

Ryan Stegman variant covers of Venom issues were the top two advance-reordered comic books in a Venom-heavy list.

Advance reorders placed between Aug. 20-26, 2018

Charles Soule and Steve McNiven's The Return of Wolverine #1, with a release date of Sept. 19, kicked off in first place in the advance reorder charts during its first week of eligibility. The issue has an incentive plan keyed to retailers' orders of X-Men Red #6.

Advance reorders placed between Sept. 10-16, 2018

We got our first couple of graphic novels offered to retailers participating in Local Comic Shop Day this month: the LCSD Brave and the Bold Batman and Wonder Woman hardcover is a black-and-white cover version of the regular hardcover (which releases November 14). Local Comic Shop Day is November 17.

The chart for the week was laden with advance reorders for Local Comic Shop Day items shipping in November, but the top October-shipping comic book was the Bill Sienkiewicz variant of Venom Annual #1. It has an on-sale date of Oct. 17.

The top November comic book was the LCSD 2018 edition of Green Lantern #1.

Advance reorders placed between Oct. 15-21, 2018

The main version of Uncanny X-Men #1 was the top advance reordered comic book at Diamond; it has an on-sale date of Nov. 14. Two other variants took the second and third places on the list.

The Firefly #1 Final-Order Cut-Off Jock Incentive cover from Boom was the top non-Marvel issue; it also has an on-sale date of Nov. 14. The main version of the issue is reported to have gotten orders of 57,291 copies, athough that figure may include orders from overseas.

Advance reorders placed between Nov. 19-25, 2018

Die Die Die #6 with its "redacted" cover was the top advance-reordered November comic book, although there's a catch: The issue did not appear in Previews, meaning this chart is where all its orders wound up.

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THE FINE PRINT

The monthly sales estimates at right are for items shipped by Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest comic-book distributor in North America.

Diamond does not publish sales figures; instead it publishes "indexed" sales tables, in which it keys orders for all comics it lists sales for to a single comic book (usually Batman), with one “order index point” being equal to 1% of that title’s orders.

Along with other methods, we use the actual Diamond final orders from titles to approximate what an order index point equals each month.The result is applied to the Diamond charts to produce the estimates seen at right.

The figures represent only those comics and graphic novels that Diamond shipped to North American retailers in the calendar month. While Diamond's sales represent the majority of periodicals in circulation, they are a smaller portion of the overall graphic novel market.

An item may appear in more than one month's charts due to reorders; for a better idea of a comic book's overall sales, look for its end-of-year sales in the Year Overview section, where available.

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